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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | Food security ordinance on cabinet table

Food security ordinance on cabinet table

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published Published on Jun 12, 2013   modified Modified on Jun 12, 2013
-The Telegraph

Poverty
The government has decided to bring in an ordinance to ensure legal right to subsidised food for two-thirds of the country's population, choosing the executive route to avoid parliamentary debates and sharing credit with the Opposition.

Sources said the Union cabinet was expected to take up the National Food Security Ordinance on Thursday and added that it was likely to be cleared and sent for presidential assent the same day.

"The cabinet meeting is scheduled for June 13. The proposal to bring promulgation of the National Food Security Ordinance 2013... to provide for food security is on the agenda list," a source said.

The food security bill, a pet project of Congress chief Sonia Gandhi, had been brought before Parliament in the last budget session but couldn't be taken up for discussion as persistent protests over alleged scams held up proceedings.

In political circles, the move by the Congress-led UPA to promulgate the ordinance is being seen as an attempt to deny the BJP credit for enforcing the legislation that seeks to ensure legal right to subsidised food for 75 per cent of the rural population and 50 per cent of urban residents.

The government had been considering the option of calling a special session of Parliament to pass the food bill - a potential game changer in the coming Lok Sabha elections - but decided on an ordinance as the BJP was non-committal on such a session.

A section of the Congress felt that passing the bill in the monsoon session would involve debates and discussions, giving the opposition BJP a chance to claim credit by supporting the bill for its passage.

Once the ordinance is notified, it has to be passed by both Houses of Parliament within six months.

The proposed law provides for a monthly quota of 5kg of grain and cereals at Re 1 to Rs 3 a kilo for every beneficiary except those already covered under the government's Antyodaya scheme.

The financial implications of the proposed law will be Rs 124,000 crore a year for the government.

People in the Below Poverty Line (BPL) category and those covered under the Antyodaya scheme now get subsidised food at fair price shops under the Targeted Public Distribution System (TPDS). A BPL family gets 35kg of food grain every month at subsidised rates. Families covered under the Antyodaya scheme get the same quantity at further subsided prices.


The Telegraph, 11 June, 2013, http://www.telegraphindia.com/1130612/jsp/nation/story_16998365.jsp#.UbgMRdjcjco


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